casacore::ArrayIO_global_functions_Array_binary_IO Struct Reference

Global functions to read/write binary arrays from/to a file. More...

#include <ArrayIO.h>

Public Member Functions
template<class T >
void	write_array (const Array< T > &the_array, const String &fileName)
	Write the values of an array in binary format into a file with the given name. More...
template<class T >
void	write_array (const Array< T > &the_array, const Char *fileName)
template<class T >
void	read_array (Array< T > &the_array, const String &fileName)
	Read the values of an array in binary format from a file with the given name. More...
template<class T >
void	read_array (Array< T > &the_array, const Char *fileName)

Detailed Description

Global functions to read/write binary arrays from/to a file.

Intended use:

Public interface

Review Status

Reviewed By:

Gareth Hunt

Date Reviewed:

95Mar31

Synopsis

These global functions provide disk read/write functions for an Array of binary numbers. The write operation is useful, for example, to dump an image in binary form to disk so that it can be displayed with an external utility such as SAOimage.

Example

Matrix<Float> picture(256, 256); picture = 0.0;
String fileName="picture.data";

// operations to populate picture
//..\.

write_array (picture, fileName);

To Do

• These functions should eventually be replaced with something more sophisticated.

Definition at line 238 of file ArrayIO.h.

Member Function Documentation

template<class T >

void casacore::ArrayIO_global_functions_Array_binary_IO::read_array	(	Array< T > &	the_array,
		const String &	fileName
	)

Read the values of an array in binary format from a file with the given name.

The number of values read is the size of the Array, thus the file should at least contain that number of values.
Warning: This function is only suitable for built-in data types;

template<class T >

void casacore::ArrayIO_global_functions_Array_binary_IO::read_array ( Array< T > &  the_array, const Char *  fileName  )

inline

Definition at line 269 of file ArrayIO.h.

template<class T >

void casacore::ArrayIO_global_functions_Array_binary_IO::write_array	(	const Array< T > &	the_array,
		const String &	fileName
	)

Write the values of an array in binary format into a file with the given name.

The values are stored in local format, thus are not converted to a canonical format as AipsIO does.
Warning: This function is only suitable for built-in data types;

template<class T >

void casacore::ArrayIO_global_functions_Array_binary_IO::write_array ( const Array< T > &  the_array, const Char *  fileName  )

inline

Definition at line 253 of file ArrayIO.h.

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The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file:

• casa/casacore/casa/Arrays/ArrayIO.h